Galois, Inc. has developed a vehicle demonstrator, the BESSPIN demonstrator which is able to showcase the effectiveness of the newly designed hardware in thwarting cyberattacks on an automobile. The vehicle was placed in front of a large monitor which is running the BeamNG software. The demonstrator showed that this novel, DARPA-funded hardware could successfully defend against an attack modelled after one seen in the wild.
Full video on the DARPA SSITH Automotive Demonstrator by DARPAtv:
The code for the vehicle, as well as all the other codebases made for BESSPIN, is open source. More information about the demonstrator is available at its GitHub repository. To learn more about Galois’s BESSPIN project and various software artifacts, check out our top-level BESSPIN repository.
The SSITH program seeks to protect electronic systems from common means of exploitation. The program is developing hardware security architectures and associated design tools to protect systems against entire classes of vulnerabilities exploited through software, not just specific vulnerability instances. Learn more about DARPA and SSITH here.
Check out the full article by Galois here
References:
Michal Podhradsky, Ethan Lew, October 18, 2022, Driving to a Secure Future: Demonstrating a Vehicle That Thwarts Cyberattacks, digital image, accessed 15 November 2022, https://galois.com/blog/2022/10/demonstrating-a-vehicle-that-thwarts-cyberattacks/.